{"id":5900,"date":"2022-12-14T08:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:04:54","slug":"what-are-green-hydrogen-electrolysers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-green-hydrogen-electrolysers\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Green Hydrogen Electrolysers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Green Hydrogen Electrolysers:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hydrogen electrolysers are devices that use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.<\/li>\n<li>When electricity input to the electrolyser is obtained from renewable sources like wind and solar, then the hydrogen produced is called<strong> green hydrogen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typically, electrolysers consume 50-55 kilowatt-hours or units of electricity to produce one kilogram of hydrogen.<\/li>\n<li>Electrolysers produce hydrogen at about 50-90 degree Celsius and at a pressure of 30-50 bar.<\/li>\n<li>Electrolysers are commercially available at a size of a few kilowatts (kW) to megawatts (MW).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What are the different electrolyser technologies?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are various electrolyser technologies available currently.<\/li>\n<li>Alkaline electrolysers and polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolysers are commercially available technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Alkaline electrolysers use liquid alkaline electrolyte solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide while PEM electrolysers are based on solid polymer membrane.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to these, there are other proprietary technologies like electrochemical, thermally-activated chemical (E-TAC) and anion exchange membrane (AEM) that claim to be more efficient than existing technology options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is India&#8217;s National Green Hydrogen Mission?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The National Green Hydrogen Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet on 4 January 2022, with the intended objectives of: Making India a leading producer and supplier of Green Hydrogen in the world &amp; Creation of export opportunities for Green Hydrogen and its derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/india-can-be-a-global-leader-in-electrolyzer-green-hydrogen-says-g20-sherpa-amitabh-kant\/article66255448.ece#:~:text=India%20can%20transform%20and%20become,Sherpa%20Amitabh%20Kant%20on%20Monday.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Hydrogen electrolysers are devices that use electricity from renewable sources to split water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}